The School's Clinical Simulation Laboratories (CSL) are designed to simulate clinical settings, providing undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to learn and enhance their skills. This is accomplished through the use of clinical case scenarios, faculty guidance, and resources that facilitate clinical critical thinking and decision-making.
The School of Nursing's Baltimore campus has 24 state-of-the-art labs, which are equipped with human patient simulators, and bedside computers, with Internet access; digitized video; computer assisted instructional software; and other interactive software. The labs are designed to replicate realistic practice settings, including the basic hospital unit, critical care, surgical/operating suite, pediatrics, neonatal nursery, maternity, home care, health assessment and diagnostic laboratory.
The School operates six interdisciplinary CSL at the Universities at Shady Grove. Each of these has a multi-focus lab, which is designed to replicate multiple clinical settings in one lab (i.e. basic hospital unit, critical care, pediatrics, maternity, and neonatal unit), in addition to the health assessment lab.
All CSL's have both scheduled classes and flexible time slots six days a week that are available for students practice and remediation.